Browsing by Author "Nurul Jannah Zainan Nazri, Ph.D"

This thesis proposes a comprehensive Qur’anic al-istikhlaf framework for examining al-sa'adah (happiness) in Islam, in response to some fragmented and reductionist approaches in both Western and Islamic scholarly traditions. While happiness is a central ethical aim across worldviews, modern secular frameworks often isolate material and psychological aspects, neglecting the moral, metaphysical, and teleological dimensions of well-being. Even within Islamic literature, discussions on al-saʿadah tend to be disjointed and hardly integrate the profound Qur’anic vision of the wholistic human being as khalifah (vicegerent) on earth. This study identifies some epistemological and ontological gaps in existing models and addresses them by proposing an integrated Qu'ranic framework grounded in the concept of al-istikhlaf. Using a qualitative and inductive methodology, it analyses Qur’anic verses, Hadith, and classical and contemporary scholarship to present a multi-dimensional model of the human being encompassing the rūḥ (spirit), qalb (heart), nafs (soul), ʿaql (intellect), bodily faculties and Fitrah (primordial nature). These are then placed in four relational domains: man’s relationship with God, with self, with others and with the universe. Findings indicated that authentic al-saʿadah, both temporal and eternal, is inseparable from fulfilling the divinely assigned role of khalifah. The Qur’anic al-istikhlaf framework reorients the discourse on happiness from a self-centred pursuit to one rooted in divine purpose, moral responsibility, and spiritual growth. It offers a cohesive alternative to prevailing psychological and philosophical models by framing human flourishing through the lens of sacred trust, ethical responsibility, and civilizational balance. This study thus contributes a spiritually grounded and epistemologically rich framework with practical implications for education, public policy, Islamic worldview renewal. It calls for further research into the application of the Qur’anic al-Istikhlaf model across diverse fields of human development and civilizational progress.

This research aims to clarify the human instinct and human behavior, their importance and relationship in the light of the Holy Qur'an with the statement of the scholars. It also shows the behavioral criteria affecting human instinct while revealing characteristics of instinct from the Qur'anic point of view. The main objective of this study is to know the Qur'anic justifications and guidelines regarding the characteristic of common human nature and its role in evaluating human behavior. In this study, the researcher relied on the inductive approaches to describe the meaning of human instinct, behavior and terminology. This study applied the analytical method to show the effects of instinct characteristics on human behavior and reveal the relationship between them. The researcher has reached number of results including: The behavioral rules must include all considerations and issues that relate to common sense, the most important of these considerations are issues of common sense, the set of Qur'anic rules, The Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, the establishment of Islamic concepts through the rules that include standards and curricula of good morals due in life. All these concepts are used by humans as a basis and source for interaction. The result also presents that human instinct has a strong relationship and great influence on human behavior, as it instills in the human’s certain behavioral patterns that determine the path of their lives, and the way he interacts with others according to good moral rules and dignity with healthy instinct.